Re: [asa] Of motes and beams

On 7/17/06, Vernon Jenkins <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net> wrote:
>
> *(1) Test the fruits of that philosophy or doctrine before making it your
> own. (Mt.7:15-20). *
>
> On this basis - as I'm sure you must agree - evolution has an
> exceptionally poor track record.
>
Vernon,

I hope you will reconsider this statement when you next get an infection of
some kind and your body's immune system fights back and defeats the
infection. What happens is evolution on a rapid timescale in your own body
- through a process of rapid random mutation and natural selection, your
immune system finds the correct antibody to bond on to the invading
pathogen, to mark it out for destruction by other components of the immune
system. We are indeed, "fearfully and wonderfully made", and in the case of
the immune system, God has used evolutionary processes to defend your body
against disease. Next time you get a cold and don't die as a result,
perhaps you would like to reconsider your statement "exceptionally poor
track record", because an evolutionary process saved you. It's not a
philosophy, it's a physical process. I know there are some (e.g. Dawkins
and Dennett) who want to make it a philosophy, but just about everyone else
on the list would disagree that it is.

Iain

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Received on Mon Jul 17 19:34:43 2006